After all, the young man was the new Sect Master of the Tianyan Sect. If anything happened to him, even the four of them, Dao Seeds of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea, would probably face consequences when they returned to their sects...
When his words failed to ease their vigilance, Cao Yuxiu did not bother trying to persuade them further.
But as he looked toward the young man they were protecting, loneliness slipped into his bright eyes despite his efforts to hide it.
"The gap between people is just too damn wide!"
He could not help muttering under his breath. With difficulty, he tore his gaze from the handsome Green-Robed Youth and turned toward his sect's Inner Sect Grand Elder.
The four Dao Seeds of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea could not begin to understand how he felt.
Only the Inner Sect Grand Elder, who also came from the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect and had gazed upon the Sacred Mountain, might truly know what he was going through.
"I can't make sense of it either!"
Feeling his Dao Seed's dejected gaze, Qi Zhentian gave a bitter smile. He, too, could not keep the discouragement from showing on his face.
He had seen the young man surnamed Luo make a move before, so his expectations for how far the young man might get in Mountain-Gazing had been considerably higher than Cao Yuxiu's.
But even with those higher expectations, if the young man surnamed Luo sat there for years, or even decades, and eventually gleaned a hint of how to cultivate the Power Law from the Sacred Mountain, it would already be a staggering achievement.
That would mean the Luo brat had begun to grasp the true meaning behind the Power Law and had a good chance of glimpsing